As president and CEO of a corporation, I take offense to Michelle Teheux’s recent column in the Taunton Daily Gazette. The fact that you were once a sole proprietor but I chose to incorporate in no way implies that I cannot identify myself and my business as supporting various beliefs and causes. To make such a generalization about corporations in America is discriminatory and prejudicial. To classify someone who is focused on making money as a sociopath is, in and of itself, indicative of possible sociopathic characteristics. For more information on those characteristics, I would highly recommend “The Sociopath Next Door” by Martha Stout, Ph.D, available on-line through Barnes & Noble. Did it ever occur to you that not all women have the financial flexibility to “stay home with our babies” and actually make ends meet having “fun” with a small business. I too am free to sacrifice potential profits for some other aim when I so choose.

Choosing a corporation as one’s legal entity in our highly litigious society, simply makes good business sense for many, and is certainly not indicative that those of us who do are not “actual human beings.” I can assure you that the rewards of providing services to those in need and at the same time providing jobs for others who simply cannot afford to stay home with their babies (especially in these difficult economic times) gives me more pride and feeling of self worth than any paycheck. That I can help support my family and still provide these services is the blessing of being a hard-working American. Running a nonprofit is certainly an admirable endeavor, but we must not forget that incorporating requires that we pay taxes, which in turn contribute to subsidizing government spending and programs for our nation’s citizens.